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orthodox
Remembering the John F. Kennedy assassination: Sabbath eve: November 22, 1963
Jewish Journal
November 18, 2013
The twenty-second of November, 1963 was, as traditional Jews say, a \”short Friday.\” At Rambam Torah Institute, the Orthodox day school on West Pico Boulevard at which I was a ninth-grade student, the day\’s teaching schedule had been compressed accordingly.
No faith, no Jewish future
Dennis Prager
November 6, 2013
In my last column, I suggested a number of reasons for the rise of Orthodox Judaism and the decline in membership among non-Orthodox denominations.
Open Judaism: Judaism wins if all denominations win
David Suissa
October 16, 2013
There’s a nasty food fight going on right now in the Orthodox world between the stringent groups and the more open ones.
Mitzvahland: For all your Jewish needs
Rob Eshman
September 17, 2013
On Sunday, my wife and I drove out to the Valley to buy a new sukkah. It was time. I’d bought our old sukkah from an Armenian Catholic who supplied booths to vendors in farmers’ markets. When his orders began to spike in September, he realized he could have a good little side business selling these things to Jews for their holiday of Sukkot. Only in America.
Reform leader Rick Jacobs slams Israeli gov’t discrimination against non-Orthodox
Jewish Journal
November 14, 2012
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said American Jews should no longer acquiesce to Israeli state-sanctioned discrimination against women and non-Orthodox Jews.
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